Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:08:11 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tg3 driver - make use of binary-only firmware optional |
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:55:34 +0200 Andreas Jochens <aj@andaco.de> wrote:
> The Debian distribution recently removed the tg3 Gigabit Ethernet driver > from its 2.6 kernels because it contains binary-only firmware, > i.e. software without source code, which violates the > Debian Free Software Guildelines.
The debian folks can ship the tg3 driver in whatever form they want to meet their political agenda.
However, that in no way means that Jeff and myself have to split the firmware out of the driver either. In fact, I do not want to as I like keeping all of the network drivers I write in single foo.c and foo.h files. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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